hashing

[ hash-ing ]

/ ˈhæʃ ɪŋ /

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noun

Radio. interference of signals between two stations on the same or adjacent frequencies.

Computers. a technique for locating data in a file by applying a transformation, usually arithmetic, to a key.

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Origin of hashing

hash¹ + -ing¹

hash

[ hash ]

/ hæʃ /

noun

a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy.

a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of unorganized facts and figures.

a reworking of old and familiar material: This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works.

Computers. garbage(def 7).

Radio and Television Slang. electrical noise on a radio or snow in a television picture caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking.

verb (used with object)

to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince.

to muddle or mess up: We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing.

to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often followed by out): They hashed out every aspect of the issue.

Verb Phrases

hash over, to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review: At the class reunion they hashed over their college days.

Origin of hash

1645–55; < French hacher to cut up, derivative of hache ax, hatchet

SYNONYMS FOR hash

10. bungle, butcher, muddle, mess up, flub. 9. review, recall, reminisce, recollect, remember.

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Related formsun·hashed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for hashing

Hashing all this out is hours of fun for the entire pundit family.
Should the President Mint a $1,000,000,000,000 Platinum Coin?|Megan McArdle|January 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But you can see how my telling her would—oh well there isn't much percentage in hashing it over.
Young People's Pride|Stephen Vincent Benet
Lobster sauce is made in the same way, only the meat should be cut smaller than for hashing.
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;|Charlotte Campbell Bury
It's very easy for you to say hash it; but I know what a joint loses in hashing: it's a day's dinner the less, if it's a bit.
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures|Anonymous

Besides this, there was nothing new; merely a hashing up of the two great trials at Aix and Loudun.
La Sorcire: The Witch of the Middle Ages|Jules Michelet
Here there is a troop of cooks, their garments girded like soldiers for the battle, hashing and steaming.
The Makers of Modern Rome|Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

British Dictionary definitions for hashing

hash

/ (hæʃ) /

noun

a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce

something mixed up

a reuse or rework of old material

make a hash of informal

to mix or mess up
to defeat or destroy

settle someone's hash or fix someone's hash informal to subdue or silence someone

verb (tr)

to chop into small pieces

to mix or mess up

Word Origin for hash

C17: from Old French hacher to chop up, from hache hatchet

hash

/ (hæʃ) /

noun

slang short for hashish

hash

hash mark

/ (hæʃ) /

noun

the character (#) used to precede a number

this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted

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Word Origin and History for hashing

hash

n.2

short for hashish, 1959.

hash

n.1

"a stew," 1660s, from hash (v.). Meaning "a mix, a mess" is from 1735.

hash

1650s, "to hack, chop into small pieces," from French hacher "chop up," from Old French hache "ax" (see hatchet). Hash browns is short for hash browned potatoes (1917), with the -ed omitted, as in mash potatoes. The hash marks on a football field were so called 1960s, from similarity to hash marks, armed forces slang for "service stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform" (1909), which supposedly were called that because they mark the number of years one has had free food (hash (n.1)) from the Army; but perhaps there is a connection with the noun form of hatch (v.2).

Medicine definitions for hashing

hash

[ hăsh ]

n.

Hashish.

Idioms and Phrases with hashing

hash

In addition to the idiom beginning with hash

hash over

also see:

make a hash of
settle someone's hash
sling hash

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